Simon Marks
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Ingraham asks Trump about destroying the East Wing to build his ballroom: "There was a report that Melania didn't love this idea. Is that true?"
Trump: "Well, she loved her little tiny office in there…If you were to ask her now, she says, 'It's great.'"
Trump: "Well, she loved her little tiny office in there…If you were to ask her now, she says, 'It's great.'"
November 11, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Ingraham asks Trump about destroying the East Wing to build his ballroom: "There was a report that Melania didn't love this idea. Is that true?"
Trump: "Well, she loved her little tiny office in there…If you were to ask her now, she says, 'It's great.'"
Trump: "Well, she loved her little tiny office in there…If you were to ask her now, she says, 'It's great.'"
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Ingraham: Why are people saying they are anxious about the economy?
Trump: I don’t know that they are saying that. I think the polls are fake.
Trump: I don’t know that they are saying that. I think the polls are fake.
November 11, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Ingraham: Why are people saying they are anxious about the economy?
Trump: I don’t know that they are saying that. I think the polls are fake.
Trump: I don’t know that they are saying that. I think the polls are fake.
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Trump on affordability: It’s a con job. Costs are way down.
Ingraham: So you are saying voters are misperceiving how they feel?
Ingraham: So you are saying voters are misperceiving how they feel?
November 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Trump on affordability: It’s a con job. Costs are way down.
Ingraham: So you are saying voters are misperceiving how they feel?
Ingraham: So you are saying voters are misperceiving how they feel?
These things are a total menace and should have been binned decades ago. This was totally predictable.
November 11, 2025 at 12:40 AM
These things are a total menace and should have been binned decades ago. This was totally predictable.
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Went on LBC News earlier to discuss the BBC shambles.
I said the BBC has kowtowed to Trump in the US and conservative outlets here - both of which want the Beeb dead.
Two of the most senior people quit over a 10-second clip using Trump’s exact words, albeit put closer together than he’d like.
I said the BBC has kowtowed to Trump in the US and conservative outlets here - both of which want the Beeb dead.
Two of the most senior people quit over a 10-second clip using Trump’s exact words, albeit put closer together than he’d like.
November 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Went on LBC News earlier to discuss the BBC shambles.
I said the BBC has kowtowed to Trump in the US and conservative outlets here - both of which want the Beeb dead.
Two of the most senior people quit over a 10-second clip using Trump’s exact words, albeit put closer together than he’d like.
I said the BBC has kowtowed to Trump in the US and conservative outlets here - both of which want the Beeb dead.
Two of the most senior people quit over a 10-second clip using Trump’s exact words, albeit put closer together than he’d like.
Lest it might be useful as an aide memoire, my "American Week" for @eddiemair.bsky.social's programme on @lbc.co.uk that first aired on January 8th 2021. Please feel free to share with anyone who might benefit from hearing it at a time when some memories are faulty.
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/776778...
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January 8, 2021 - "American Week": American Carnage
Simon's live weekly roundup for Eddie Mair's programme on LBC. Live every Friday at 4:50pm.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Lest it might be useful as an aide memoire, my "American Week" for @eddiemair.bsky.social's programme on @lbc.co.uk that first aired on January 8th 2021. Please feel free to share with anyone who might benefit from hearing it at a time when some memories are faulty.
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/776778...
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/776778...
Is this the beginning of the US Government shutdown's end? My breaking news report for CNA, Singapore's pan-Asian English language news channel.
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/880414...
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/880414...
November 9, 2025 - AS IT BROKE: Could Senate test vote be the begining of the shutdown's end?
Simon's live report from Washington for CNA.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Is this the beginning of the US Government shutdown's end? My breaking news report for CNA, Singapore's pan-Asian English language news channel.
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/880414...
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/880414...
It is hard to overstate the depth of the abyss into which the Democratic Party is tonight on course to leap. Days after humiliating Trump in the country's off-year elections, they are declaring war on themselves.
November 10, 2025 at 2:21 AM
It is hard to overstate the depth of the abyss into which the Democratic Party is tonight on course to leap. Days after humiliating Trump in the country's off-year elections, they are declaring war on themselves.
Mine with @nickabbot.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk tonight, as Trump claims victory over the BBC, and centrist Democrats are close to capitulating to his White House over the U.S. government shutdown.
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/880411...
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November 9, 2025 - AS IT BROKE: Centrist Democrats may capitulate in U.S. government shutdown
Simon's live US roundup from Washington for Nick Abbot's Sunday night / Monday morning programme on the UK's LBC. This week, Donald Trump celebrates victory over the BBC, and breaking new...
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November 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Mine with @nickabbot.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk tonight, as Trump claims victory over the BBC, and centrist Democrats are close to capitulating to his White House over the U.S. government shutdown.
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/880411...
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/880411...
Indications that a sufficient number of centrist Democrats in the Senate are about to capitulate to Republican demands to re-open the government that will, instead, open up deep, abiding wounds within the Democratic Party. Very complex times ahead for America's opposition party.
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Indications that a sufficient number of centrist Democrats in the Senate are about to capitulate to Republican demands to re-open the government that will, instead, open up deep, abiding wounds within the Democratic Party. Very complex times ahead for America's opposition party.
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This is brutal. Fox forgot to edit all the booing at the Washington Commanders game.
November 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
This is brutal. Fox forgot to edit all the booing at the Washington Commanders game.
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“I no longer can bear to be restrained by what judges can say publicly or do outside the courtroom,” Judge Mark L. Wolf writes on his decision to resign from the federal bench. “President Trump is using the law for partisan purposes”:
https://theatln.tc/MHDWR78I
https://theatln.tc/MHDWR78I
November 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“I no longer can bear to be restrained by what judges can say publicly or do outside the courtroom,” Judge Mark L. Wolf writes on his decision to resign from the federal bench. “President Trump is using the law for partisan purposes”:
https://theatln.tc/MHDWR78I
https://theatln.tc/MHDWR78I
Afriforum’s leader tells Newzroom Afrika there is, in fact, no genocide, and that farms have not been expropriated without conversation.
youtu.be/pkRp1_PiDsc
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We never said there is genocide - AfriForum
YouTube video by Newzroom Afrika
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November 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Afriforum’s leader tells Newzroom Afrika there is, in fact, no genocide, and that farms have not been expropriated without conversation.
youtu.be/pkRp1_PiDsc
youtu.be/pkRp1_PiDsc
Trump-appointed judge blocks Trump from deploying National Guard to Portland, as ICE excesses multiply across the country.
My natter earlier today with the excellent @natashadevon.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/880392...
My natter earlier today with the excellent @natashadevon.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/880392...
November 8, 2025 - Judge blocks Trump from deploying National Guard to Portland, as ICE excesses multiply
Simon's live update for Natasha Devon's Saturday afternoon programme on the UK's LBC.
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November 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Trump-appointed judge blocks Trump from deploying National Guard to Portland, as ICE excesses multiply across the country.
My natter earlier today with the excellent @natashadevon.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/880392...
My natter earlier today with the excellent @natashadevon.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/880392...
A Democratic identity crisis: Simon Marks' American Week
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November 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Trump sent these people to El Salvador to be tortured. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
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November 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Trump sent these people to El Salvador to be tortured. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
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"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”
November 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”
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"wartime footing" is also a way to claim power to act against the law. It is is illegitimate, but the kind of thing aspiring dictators try.
It's smart to be prepared for war, but to put the US economy on a "wartime footing" for an indefinite period of time comes at an immense cost to quality of life and is simply unsustainable.
Hegseth: "We are not building for peacetime. We are pivoting the Pentagon and our industrial base to a wartime footing. Building for victory should our adversaries FAFO."
November 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
"wartime footing" is also a way to claim power to act against the law. It is is illegitimate, but the kind of thing aspiring dictators try.
First world problems:
Karoline Leavitt: ‘Every time I travel to the United Kingdom with President Trump and am forced to watch the BBC in our hotel rooms, it ruins my day.’
The remote must have been hidden by the hotel management. Or maybe she couldn't figure out how to use it.
Karoline Leavitt: ‘Every time I travel to the United Kingdom with President Trump and am forced to watch the BBC in our hotel rooms, it ruins my day.’
The remote must have been hidden by the hotel management. Or maybe she couldn't figure out how to use it.
November 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
First world problems:
Karoline Leavitt: ‘Every time I travel to the United Kingdom with President Trump and am forced to watch the BBC in our hotel rooms, it ruins my day.’
The remote must have been hidden by the hotel management. Or maybe she couldn't figure out how to use it.
Karoline Leavitt: ‘Every time I travel to the United Kingdom with President Trump and am forced to watch the BBC in our hotel rooms, it ruins my day.’
The remote must have been hidden by the hotel management. Or maybe she couldn't figure out how to use it.
Trump announces complete US boycott of this month's G20 summit in South Africa, plunging bilateral relations with Pretoria back to their lowest level ever.
Mine for South Africa's "Newzroom Afrika", with Thabo Dluli presenting. Courtesy DStv405.
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Mine for South Africa's "Newzroom Afrika", with Thabo Dluli presenting. Courtesy DStv405.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kKK...
SA rebukes Trump's renewed claims of 'White Persecution'
YouTube video by Newzroom Afrika
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November 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Trump announces complete US boycott of this month's G20 summit in South Africa, plunging bilateral relations with Pretoria back to their lowest level ever.
Mine for South Africa's "Newzroom Afrika", with Thabo Dluli presenting. Courtesy DStv405.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kKK...
Mine for South Africa's "Newzroom Afrika", with Thabo Dluli presenting. Courtesy DStv405.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kKK...
I had a lovely chat with some very talented students at
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social recently for their Politics Society podcast. Lest you fancy it….
open.spotify.com/episode/6prz...
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social recently for their Politics Society podcast. Lest you fancy it….
open.spotify.com/episode/6prz...
Simon Marks talks Journalism, US Politics, and New Technology
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November 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I had a lovely chat with some very talented students at
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social recently for their Politics Society podcast. Lest you fancy it….
open.spotify.com/episode/6prz...
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social recently for their Politics Society podcast. Lest you fancy it….
open.spotify.com/episode/6prz...
My "American Week" for @tomswarbrick.bsky.social's programme on the UK's @lbc.co.uk. Listen live every Friday or find it here on-demand afterwards.
This week: the Democrats rout Trump's Republicans in off-year elections, and former VP Dick Cheney dies at 84.
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/880364...
This week: the Democrats rout Trump's Republicans in off-year elections, and former VP Dick Cheney dies at 84.
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/880364...
November 7, 2025 - "American Week": The Democrats dare to dream
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for Tom Swarbrick's Friday drivetime programme on the UK's LBC. Listen live every Friday at 5:50pm or find it on catch-up here after...
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November 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
My "American Week" for @tomswarbrick.bsky.social's programme on the UK's @lbc.co.uk. Listen live every Friday or find it here on-demand afterwards.
This week: the Democrats rout Trump's Republicans in off-year elections, and former VP Dick Cheney dies at 84.
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/880364...
This week: the Democrats rout Trump's Republicans in off-year elections, and former VP Dick Cheney dies at 84.
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/880364...